Ars TechnicaAI plus MRI yields the ability to recognize what the mind is hearing
System can also reconstruct speech a person imagines.
EvilGinger- Queen of Naps@arstechnica
I can see some practical uses for this tech (after it matures and has become more accurate). Determining depth of injury for a person who suffered a traumatic head injury, traumatic brain injury, stroke, or Alzheimer's. Determining if a person in a comatose state has any functional cognitive and/or reactive brain activity or if any brain activity is just autonomic in nature.
Interesting subject. Thanks.
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)It may just give someone with locked-in syndrome a voice. At the moment, those who are locked in have at best a very inefficient eye-gaze method of communication, or in some cases, basically can only indicate very rudimentary yes/no responses.
That said, permanently stationing a patient in a MRI machine is not practical, and a device portable enough to be used say, on a wheelchair could have unintended consequences.
@stuartl @arstechnica
I was talking about diagnostic uses. Not daily functional uses.
The tech is new- it will likely mature into practical diagnostic use long before it can be made to be practical for daily functional use for communications and things like "thought control" of smart devices.
I was talking about diagnostic uses. Not daily functional uses.
The tech is new- it will likely mature into practical diagnostic use long before it can be made to be practical for daily functional use for communications and things like "thought control" of smart devices.